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Blitzkrieg into Poland (Europe War)
1) Germans used the Blitzkrieg and bombed Polish airfields , and German warship and U-bouts attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic sea. Hitler claimed that it was a defense action.
2) By this actions Britain and France declared war on Germany. To Hitler the invasion of Poland would bring territory to the German People and the Native Slavs would be enslaved, also it would make easier for the invasion of the countries around Poland -
Dunkirk (Europe War)
1) Germans troops drove Allied forces toward the English Channel. The port of Dunkirk became the Allies only way out. Hitler ordered to his troops to stop, providing a three-day delay that allowed Allied forces to evacuate. The evacuation ended on June 4, 338,000 troops from Britain and France had been saved.
2) The result of this war was the surrender of France and the Germany control in most part of the Europe. And the preparation of England invasion. -
Battle of Britain / The Blitz (Europe War)
1) Hitler ordered the air force, the Luftwaffe to begin attacking British ship in the English Channel. Britain' s use of radar gave and used blackouts and morale stays Hitler stopped the invasion of Britain.
2) This battle shows to Hitler that it will not be easy to take Britain, and Britain used this war to gain American support with Avertacing. Also United Stated started to build up Military for security. -
Germany takes Greece (Europe War)
1)This happened in Europe. Germany and Italy capture Greece from Britain and begin attacking North Africa. The Greek army found itself outnumbered in its effort to defend against both Italian and German troops, Germans forced Greek to surrender and Britain forces were forced to retreat.
2) This was a strategy for start to invade Africa, Hitler had the intentions of take the control of the oil industries in Africa -
Operation Barbarossa (Europe war)
1)Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black sea. German troops had a high level of training, against the Russian army with the training of the twentieth century, but they had more people.
2)Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources. -
Pearl Harbor (Pacific war)
1) 360 Japanese planes attacked the naval base Pearl Harbor. Destroying nearly 20 American naval vessels, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack.
2 This battle was the crucial point where America enter to the world war ll, declaring war to Japan and Germany their allies three days later declared war on the United State, and again Congress reciprocated. -
Philippines 1942 (Pacific war)
1)United State troops were lead by Gen. MacArthur. The troops fight during 3 months, but they run out of supplies. MacArthur orders a retreat to Australia but he promised to return.
2) This was a strategy from Japan to prevent the use of the Philippines as an advance base of operations by American Forces, also to acquire staging areas and supply bases to enhance operations against India -
Bataan (Pacific war)
The surrendered Filipinos and Americans( 60,000 prisoners) were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march some 70 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando. Over 10,000 die from abuse, starvation and exhaustion.
By May 1942 only Midway Island and Hawaii were in control, this was a huge advantage for Japan, obtaining more supplies . -
Doolittle Raid (Pacific war)
1) It was a especially modified planes to bomb Tokyo, there was a very little damage. Sixteen B-25B bombers were launched without escort.
2) This provided an important boost to American morale. -
Coral Sea (Pacific war)
1) It was a two days air-battle. It was the first naval battle fought in the air. Both sides suffered damages o their carriers, the battle left Japanese without enough planes o cover the ground attack of Port of Port Moresby resulting in US victory, Japan is forced to retreat
2) Japanese planes were to cut off shipping lanes between US and Australia, set up an invasion of Australia -
Midway (Pacific Battle)
1) US code breakers learn about the attack and Admiral Chester Mimite prepares to defend Midway. It was a 4-day Battle; heavy losses for both sides. Their losses were 275 airplanes and 4 aircraft carriers.
2) For Japan Midway was a stepping stone to capturing Hawaii, US mainland. This was a turning Point in the war of the Pacific. Japan loses ability to fight an offensive war on US. -
Guadalcanal (Pacific war)
1) This fight takes six months until we control island. Americans learn how to fight in Jungles and US started to use Navajo for Battlefield communication (very complex native language
2) This battle was the beginning of the US strategy which was to move island to island, avoiding strongholds. -
2nd battle of El Alamein (Pacific war)
Battle of El Alamein was a decisive battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. With the Allies victorious, it marked the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign.
The battle coincided with the Allied invasion of French North Africa in Operation Torch, which started on 8 November, as well as the Battle of Stalingrad and the Guadalcanal Campaign. -
Operation Torch (Europe War)
1) It consist to attack Germany from the south. Beginning with take Africa move to Sicily and after to Italy ( Attack the crocodile from below). USA invade Algeria and move to the east led by Gen. Dwight D. Germans troop trapped between US and Britain, forced to retreat to Italy.
2) This allow to the allies to control the North of Africa, a big victory which elevate the moral of the soldiers and crates the feeling of be able to win this war. -
New Guinea (Pacific war)
During the initial phase in early 1942, the Empire of Japan invaded the Australian-administered territories of the New Guinea Mandate (23 January) and Papua (8 March) and overran western New Guinea (beginning 29/30 March), which was a part of the Netherlands East Indies. During the second phase, lasting from late 1942 until the Japanese surrender, the Allies—consisting primarily of Australian and US forces—cleared the Japanese first from Papua, then the Mandate and finally from the Dutch colony. -
Stalingrad (Europe War)
It was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad. It stopped the German Advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. It was one of the bloodiest battles in History which combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 millions.
The invading Germans saw the conquest of Stalingrad as essential to their campaign in southern Russia. The Russians were determined to defend the city as a vital industrial and transportation center -
Kursk (Europe War)
Kursk was to be the biggest tank battle of World War Two and the battle resulted in a severe crisis for Nazi Germany’s war machine in Russia. Germany had grouped 900,000 men 2,700 tanks and 2,000 aircraft.The Russians had also placed in Kursk bulge. 1.3 million soldiers were based there, 20,000 artillery, 3,600 tanks and 2,400 planes.
2) The result where 300.000 Germans troops captured and ending the German's ability to fight offensively on the Easter Front. -
Sicily (Operation Husky) (Europe War)
1)160,000 Allied troops invade Sicily and gain complete control. It took 39 days with the results of Mussolini in jail, his government collapses.
2) With this Italy would create a 2nd front & give us control of the Mediterranean Sea -
Salerno (Europe War)
Allies invade Salerno Italy in the south, Italy surrenders but Germany takes control of Italy and continues to fight. After 10 months of fighting allies takes the control of southern Italy and Rome, but Operation Husky stills. -
Gilbert & Marshall Islands (Pacific war)
The Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign were a series of battles fought from November 1943 through February 1944, in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the United States and the Empire of Japan. They were the first steps of the drive across the central Pacific by the United States Pacific Fleet and Marine Corps. The purpose was to establish airfields and naval bases that would allow air and naval support for upcoming operations across the Central Pacific. -
Anzio (Europe war)
Allied attempt to draw German troops off the Gustav Line. An expeditionary force commanded by U.S. Major General JohnP. Lucas secured a beachhead near Anzio and Nettuno on Italy’s west coast, but his divisions were quickly contained by German Field Marshall Albert Kesselring. Resulted in heavy casualties on both sides, though no budge in the stalemate for four months. The Allies finally broke out of the beachhead in late May, facilitating the advance that led to the eventual capture of Rome. -
D-Day (Europe War)
After Midnight paratroopers drop behind German Lines, gliders drop in Jeep & Light tanks. They cut Railroad and Captures airfields. In France troops landed on beaches, not were Germany expected the invasion. Example
Omaha Beach – mines in water, on the beach, barbed wire, troops & artillery in the cliffs 2 American divisions charge beach
60% of them are killed, but beach is taken.
2) This invasion was focus to cut communication and transportation and create a second front -
Guam (Pacific war)
The Second Battle of Guam (21 July – 10 August 1944) was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands captured by the Japanese from the U.S. in the 1941 First Battle of Guam during the Pacific campaign of World War II. -
Operation Dragoon (Europe War)
This was the name given to the southern France invasion of Allied forces on 8.15.1944 in World War II. Despite its effectively forcing the German Army Group G to fall back and leave Southern France because of the constant attacks by allied troops it isn’t very well known.The goal of the operation was to secure the vital ports on the French Mediterranean coast and increase pressure on the German forces by opening another front. -
battle of the Philippines 1944-45 (Pacific War)
The Philippines campaign, the Battle of the Philippines or the Liberation of the Philippines was the American and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines, during World War II. The Japanese Army overran all of the Philippines during the first half of 1942. The Liberation of the Philippines commenced with amphibious landings on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte on October 20, 1944 -
Battle of Leyte Gulf (Pacific war0
Battle of the Leyte Gulf, lead by Admiral Nimitz and MacArthur. Japanese fleet meets United State flee in the gulf. It was the largest naval battle in history. Unites State traps them in a straight and pounds them. In this battle was the first time that appear the Kamikaze pilots which were planes loaded with explosives.
2) America retake the Philippines in February 1915, and the Japanese navy were almost completely destroyed. -
Battle of the Bulge (Europe War)
Germans hit a weak spot in Allied lines and create a 50 mile deep, and 80 mile wide bulge. Some United Stated troops trapped in the middle of the bulge of Bastogne. United Sated digs in, stops the offensive, then forces Germans to retreat.
2) This led a losses of 80,000 in Americans troop and 120,000 in Germans troops. -
Bastogne (Europe War)
The capture of Bastogne was the ultimate goal of the Battle of the Bulge,the German offensive through the Ardennes forest. The town was defended by the U.S. 101 Division, which had to be reinforced General Patton strategy where in he literally wheeled his 3rd Army a sharp 90 degrees in a counter thrust movement, Patton broke through the German lines and entered Bastogne, relieving the valiant defenders and ultimately pushing the Germans east across the Rhine. -
Yalta Conference (Europe War)
The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. Stalin also agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the Asian war against Japan, for which he was promised the return of lands lost to Japan in the Russo Japanese War -
Iwo Jima (Pacific war)
Elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S marine divisions landed on the island.Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops who fought from an elaborate network of caves,dugouts,tunnels and underground installations. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting,and the battle earned a place in American lore with the publication of a photograph showing the U.S flag being raised in victory. -
Okinawa (Pacific War)
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign (April 1—June 22, 1945) involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan. By the end of the 82-day campaign, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties—including 14,000 dead. -
Hitler's Suicide (Europe War)
1) Eva Braun ( Hitler's lover) takes cyanide pill, and Hitler shoots himself at the same time. Loyal guards burned his body and burred it in a shallow grave.
2) After learning of Hitler's death Germans troops begins surrending in droves. -
German Surrender (Europe War)
V.E Day( Victory in Europe). Germany agrees to unconditional surrender -
Potsdam Conference (Pacific war)
The Potsdam Conference was the last of the World War II meetings held by the American President Harry S.Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations. Although talks primarily centered on postwar Europe, the Big Three also issued a declaration demanding “unconditional surrender” from Japan. -
Hiroshima (Pacific war)
The Enola Gay a B-29 dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, destroying 80% of the city and more than 68,000 people die instantly, thousands die later. In total were 118,000 people who die. Japanese government didn't surrender. -
Invasion of Manchuria (Pacific war)
On this day in 1945, the Soviet Union officially declares war on Japan, pouring more than 1 million Soviet soldiers into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, northeastern China, to take on the 700,000-strong Japanese army. The dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima by the Americans did not have the effect intended: unconditional surrender by Japan. Half of the Japanese inner Cabinet, called the Supreme War Direction Council, refused to surrender. They didn't believe what was happening in Hiroshima. -
Nagasaki (Pacific war)
In August 8 of 1945 a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 35,000 people, thousands die later. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.” -
Japan Surrender (Pacific war)
Japan surrenders unconditionally. For United State was a good news since there wasn't more bombs. In September 2 aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II.
